30 March 2006

'Cause He's the Tax Man!

Someone kick my butt!

I hate this time of year.I throw all my tax information into a box and wait until the last minute to sort it out and take it to my tax preparer.Inevitably there is something missing and I have to scramble to find it.

Last year I waited until the 14th of April to begin my tax information gathering. I'm proud of myself this year for beginning before "the midnight hour."

I normally get a small refund, and so long as that is truethe 15th really isn't a deadline.I've also heard there is less likelihood of being audited if you wait until the last minute.......

5 comments:

I'm really stupid about it. I've had ours figured for over a month and still haven't sent them. They're done in pencil, need to be checked and finished in ink...I got us a really nice refund this year...AND STILL HAVEN'T SENT THEM!

I have always done our taxes. Every year since 197.... One year, just after we had our first child, I thought we probably had to have someone else do them. We now owned a home, had a new baby, etc. After getting them back from the preparer I checked them over and found an error that would have cost us $500. That was the last time someone else did them. For year after I spent hours poring over ever receipt, checking and rechecking every figure. Now, I use Turbo-Tax. What an incredible tool. I can wait until April 14 and have them in our post by April 15. It is great.